The Rain Before it Falls

'Please, God … if there’s a next life, let me write as well as Jonathan Coe' ANTHONY BOURDAIN

'Probably the best English novelist of his generation' NICK HORNBY

'My comfort read: anything by Jonathan Coe' BOB MORTIMER

Rosamund lies dying in her remote Shropshire home. But before she does so, she has one last task: to put on tape not just her own story but the story of the young blind girl, her cousin's granddaughter, who turned up mysteriously at her party all those years ago. This is a story of generations, of the relationships within a family - and of what goes to make a child.